Josh Bersin Articles

OpenAI Gets Into Job Placement While The Job Market Crashes

OpenAI, the company that’s disrupting the job market, has decided to get into job matching and placement. They call it The Open AI Jobs Platform, and its designed to provide economic opportunity for all.

Interestingly, this is the same language LinkedIn used in March of 2008 when they launched LinkedIn Recruiter. later acquiring Lynda.com... Read more»

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Labor Day Arrives: How AI Changes Everything For Workers

US Labor Day is always a time to celebrate workers. Well this year, unlike years before, the entire labor market is changed. Not only are many front-line workers in high demand, white-collar workers are experiencing a hiring slowdown and automation is impacting everyone. And for the first time in my career, the BLS expects very ... Read more»

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Will AI Obsolete Employee Surveys? Perceptyx Says AI Can Do Much More.

In this podcast Kathi Enderes interviews Joe Freed, Chief Product officer at Perceptyx, explains the company’s strategy to extend its employee engagement platform to provide nudges, manager tools, and in-depth analysis of employee needs.

While the employee survey is not dead yet, you’ll see where things are going. Perceptyx is a well-known survey ... Read more»

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Is Superintelligence Nonsense? Why The AI Market Stumbled.

The AI market boom took a pause last week when GPT-5 and some new research from MIT appeared. As you’ll hear, the expectations for AI are extraordinarily high and that causes a lot of bubble effects. Today I explain this bubble and where it’s going.

I also discuss our latest experiences with AI transformation in ... Read more»

Workday to Acquire Paradox. A Bigger Deal Than You Think.

Today Workday announced the acquisition of Paradox.ai, the pioneer in AI-based conversational recruiting. As I detail in my podcast, this deal could be far more than an addition to Workday’s recruitment offering. It could significantly expand Workday into the front-line worker market, broaden the product portfolio, and deepen Workday’s AI expertise.

Paradox was ... Read more»

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Workday Acquires Paradox, A Bigger Deal Than You Think

This week I discuss Workday’s acquisition of Paradox, the pioneer in AI-powered conversational recruiting.

As I describe in detail, this is a big deal – and it goes beyond Workday’s ability to now offer high-volume, conversational recruitment. Talent Acquisition itself is about to radically change with AI, and this moves Workday into a leading position ... Read more»

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White Hot AI Dev Tool Market: Workday Acquires Flowise And More

The new battle for AI supremacy is now moving to the application development space, or IDE (Integrated Development Environments). These companies, like Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot, Replit, Google AI Studio, and Microsoft Power tools, are exploding with growth. Why? Because in the world of AI, we’re all application developers!

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Employee Engagement and Happiness Crisis. What Should We Do?

The statistics on employee engagement and happiness are shocking. Gallup’s 2025 data shows that only 21% of workers are fully engaged (down 10% from last year), only 27% of managers are engaged (down 11%), 66% of employees are “suffering,” and 8% are “struggling.”

And there’s more distressing news. The 2025 World Happiness Report shows that ... Read more»

Introducing Galileo™ for Managers, The Leadership Guru At Your Fingertips

Introducing Galileo® for Managers, the leadership guru at the fingertips of every manager.

It’s hard to be a manager: hiring people, setting goals, creating alignment, and coaching can be difficult. And expectations for leaders are high: companies are trimming mid-level leaders every day.

What if you had an AI agent trained on every possible ... Read more»

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SAP Acquires SmartRecruiters. Many Implications, Here They Are.

This week SAP SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of SmartRecruiters, one of the fastest-growing talent acquisition platforms. This is much more than a technology deal: it demonstrates the value of talent and the massive redefinition of “applicant tracking systems” taking place today.

While the deal is not final and details are yet to come, I highlight ... Read more»